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...book in question, Our Red Sox: A Story of Family, Friends, and Fenway has hardly become the lead galleon. That would be Stephen King?s, I?m sure. But Our Red Sox has found its little audience, and in doing so has allowed me to meet new people, see new things, get to know my Bosox brethren a little better...
...There are a lot of new ones to meet. You may know, from previous missives, about the BLOHARDS-the Benevolent Loyal Order of Honorable and Ancient Red Sox Diehard Sufferers of New York. Among us Sox fans-among you, if you?re with us now that we?re World Champs-the BLOHARDS are, today, something bordering on semi-famous. ESPN found out about us in early ?04, and FOX followed, as FOX is wont to do. We got better known throughout the season, and Jim Shea, a diligent BLOHARDS exec, now tells me the membership roll is climbing...
...BLOHARDS are popular. We?re ?in.? Like all things Sox, we?re riding high. I saw this at the year?s first BLOHARDS luncheon, which coincided with the Sox? second visit to the Stadium this season. My friend Jim Powers called me in advance of the date and asked if I would join the entertainment slate, which already included Jerry Trupiano interviewing Bronson Arroyo, Dr. Charles?s State of the Franchise address and, not least, Powers himself, regaling and cracking wise. ?Shaughnessy can?t make it,? Jim said. ?Hell with ?im. Your book?s better anyway...
...David Sedaris had attracted three or four hundred to the bookstore the previous weekend. ?We moved the podium out to here,? Zack told me as we walked into the events room. Our Red Sox, by contrast, lured a mixed crowd of perhaps twenty on a thick night that promised thunderstorms (the author said by way of explanation). Zack made a gracious introduction, I read a few bits, and then we entered into question-and-answer. We mercifully dealt with Foulke in under five minutes, and then moved on to more substantial things: ?How do you get all those tickets?? ?Down...
...about it,? I said, ?I think they do-finally. We used to be just like the Mets to them. They knew we considered it a big rivalry, but they were the Yankees, eternal kings, and had no real rivals. That?s how the fans felt, anyway. The Mets and Sox were pretenders with pretensions, and could feel however they liked. But the Yankees bestrode all of baseball. When they beat the Mets in the World Series, then beat us in 2003, that became an even stronger stance. We were insects. They were swatting. Now, though-after last year, particularly...